HOME DEPARTMENT

Mugging: Older People

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many elderly people were hospitalised as the result of an unprovoked attack or mugging in the last year.

Jeremy Browne: The information requested is not available from the police recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office. Data on the age of the victim are not available and it is not possible to determine how many persons were hospitalised as a result of incidents of violence.